Inger



s Carriages. Patented june 7,1881.

(No Model.)

UNTTED STATES PATENT Trice.

OTTO UNZIOKER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ADOLPH SHOEN- INGER, OF SAME PLACE.

CANOPY-STANDARD FOR CHILDRENS CARRIAGES.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,491, dated June '7, 1881, Application filedFebr-uary 7,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, O'r'ro UNZICKER, of Chicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ganopy-Standards for Childrens Carriages, of which the following is a specification.

The object I have in view is to produce a single rear standard and connections for supporting the canopy-top of ababycarriage, which will be so constructed that the top can be readily adjusted to any desired position and angle, and can be fixed rigidly at any point, so as to shield the child from the rays of the sun and from the weather, and the standard will be adapted for attachment to the backs of baby-carriages of all shapes, and can be always secured in a vertical position.

Myinvention consists in the peculiar means for accomplishing the movements or adjustments of my standard and top; and, further, 1n the device for enabling the standard to be attached vertically to baby-carriages having backs of different shapes, all as fully hereinafter explained, and pointedout by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure l is a vertical section through the canopy-top and the back of the carriage, showing the standard and connections in side elevation; Fig. 2, a vertical section through the lower joint of the standard and the means for connecting the same with the back of the carriage; Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal section through the connection of the standard with the canopy-top; Fig. 4, a view from the under side of this last connection, and Fig. 5 a view of the same parts when the canopy is shifted laterally on the standard.

Like letters denote corresponding parts in all the figures.

A is a canopytop for a baby-carriage; B, the single rear standard that supports the same, and O the back of the carriage to which the standard is secured.

The standard B is preferably a round iron rod, which rises straight, or nearly so, from its connection with the back 0, and then bent or curved forward over such back to receive the canopy-top. The standard is supported by a socket-iron, I), which is provided with legs a b, by which the socket-iron is secured to the center of the back 0 by means of wood-screws. The legs a are cast in one piece with such socketiron, while the legs I) are pivoted thereto by a rivet. By means of these pivoted logs the socket-iron can be secured in a true vertical position to the back C, no matter what angle the back has, which is a feature of importance, since it is desirable that the canopy-standard should also be vertical.

The socket-iron D has a conical or round tapered socket, open at both ends and with its large end turned upward. The standard B passes down through this socket, and has a round tapered collar, E, secured rigidly thereto and resting in'the upper end of the socket iron D.

The lower end of the standard, which projects a short distance through the'socket-iron,

is screw threaded, and is provided with a thumb-nut, F. By looseningthe thnmb-nutF the standard B can he turned axially any desired distance,when,by tighteningsuch thumb nut, the standard will be rigidly fixed. This enables the canopy-top to be swung with the standard to either side.

The standard has two hearings in the socketiron, one where its lower end passes through thesocket-iron and the other where the collar E engages with such socket-iron. These means for supporting and holding the standard, while being very simple, are exceedingly effective, since the wear at the joint is taken up, and the standard is always held rigidly and prevented from shaking or rattling.

When the thumb-nut F isloosencd the standard and top can be swung around out of the way to put the child into or remove him from the carriage without tightening the thumbnut. Said thumb-nut need not be tightened until the top is again in its normal position, since the standard is well supported independentof the thumb-nut and cannot drop through its socket.

To a block, (I, located at the center of the under side of the canopy-top, is secured by woodscrews a plate, 0, having studs, to which are pivoted arms G G. These arms are pivoted at points laterally separated, and are curved toward each other. The shanks of these arms are made straight horizontally, and are lapped one upon the other, as shown, such shanks be- TOO ing provided with coincident lon gitudinal slots f. These arms are curved somewhat vertically,

being convex on their upper side, for a purpose that will be presently explained.

Through the slots fot the arms G G passes a. clamp bolt, II, which extends "ertically through a socket-casting, I, and is drawn downwardly by a thumbnut, g, on its lower end. The clamp-bolt is made angular where it passes through the casting I, so that it cannot turn therein. This sockctcasting I is secured to the upper end of the standard B. It has a col lar, h, cast therewith, which slides over the standard. The extreme end of the standard is flattened, and is riveted to the castin The peculiar connection described between the canopy-top and the standard permits four movements in addition to that given by the axial turning of the standard:

First, the top can be moved forward and back on the standard, the slotted arms sliding together over the clampbolt, and can be held rigidly at any point by the clamp-bolt. The vertical curve given the slotted arms causes the top to tip down when moved forward.

Second, the top can be swung bodily on the standard, the slotted plates turning on the clamp-bolt.

Third, the top can be shifted laterallyon the standard, and independent thereof, without turning the top out of line with the carriage. In this movement the arms G G slide one upon the other, since their pivots are separated, as shown in Fig. 5.

Fourth, the top can be twisted axially inde' pendent of the standard. In this movement the arms G G also slide on each other; but the lateral position of the top is not changed.

In bringing the canopy-top to the desired position it may be necessary to make all four adjustments, more or less; but the single clam pbolt is adapted to fix the arms at any point. It may be also necessary before the best position of the canopy-top is attained to turn the standard in the socket-iron D and secure it in its new position by the thumb-nut F.

With these five movements or adjustments it is possible to shift the top to any position desired.

The means for pern'iitting the four movements of the top independent of the standard, it will be seen, are exceedingly simple, and are governed entirely by a single elamp-bol t.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In childrens carriages, the socket-iron I), secured to the back (3, in combination with the canopy-standard B, turning axially in such socket-iron, and held by theoollarE and thnm bnut F, substantially as described and shown.

2. In childrens carriages, the combination, with the single rear standard, B, of the top A, connected by pivoted arms with such standard, and adapted to be shifted forward and back and laterally and to be turned axially, and a single nut or screw controlling all of such adjustments, substantially as described and shown.

3. In childrens carriages, the combination, with the single rear standard, B, of the top A and the arms G G, pivoted at different points to said top, and held together on the end of the standard by a single clamp-bolt, II, substantially as described and shown.

4. In childrens carriages, the combination, with the single standard B and back U, of the socket iron I), having pivoted securing-legs I), substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

OTTO UN ZIOKER.

\Vitnesscs:

F. W. KASEIIAGEN, EMIL H. FROMMANN. 

